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SPECIAL REGULATIONS NO. 103 



STUDENTS' 

ARMY TRAINING CORPS 

REGULATIONS 



V 



1918 




WASHINGTON 

GOVERNMEr^T PRINTING OFHCE 

1918 



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SPECIAL REGULATIONS NO. 103. 



WAR DEPARTMENT, 

Washington, September 24, 1918. 

The following regulations and instructions governing the 
establishment, administration, and maintenance of Students' 
Army Training Corps units at educational institutions, and the 
issue of Government property thereto in accordance with exist- 
ing laws are published for the information and guidance of all 
concerned. 

The provisions of these regulations do not affect obligations 
to provide military instruction imposed by the act of July 2, 
1862, upon land-grant institutions. 
[000.862, A. G. O.] 

By oedee of the Seceetaey of Wae : 

PEYTON C. MARCH, 
General, Chief of Staff. 
Official : 

P. C. HARRIS, 

Acting The Adjutant General. 
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TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Paragraphs. 

Section I. General principles >- 1- 3 

Section II. Constitution , 4r- 9 

Section III. Conditions and routine ot admission to. a 

Students' Army Training Corps unit 10-16 

Section IV. Administration 17-23 

Section V. Scope of training 24-27 

Section VI. Military inspection 28 

Section VII. Uniform and equipment 29-37 

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STUDENTS' ARMY TRAINING CORPS REGULATIONS. 



SECTION I. 

GENERAL PRINCIPLES. 

Paragraph. 

Authorization for establishment 1 

Title 2 

Object - - 3 

1. Anthorization for establishment. — The Students' Army 
Training Corps is raised under authority of the act of Con- 
gress approved May 18, 1917, commonly known as the selective- 
service act, authorizing the President to increase temporarily 
the Military Establishment of the United States, as amended 
by the act of August 31, 1918, and under Section II, General 
Orders, No. 79, of the War Department, dated August 24, 1918, 
as follows : 

" Under the authority conferred by sections 1, 2, 8, and 9 
of the act of Congress * authorizing the President to increase 
temporarily the Military Establishment of the Unjlted States,' 
approved May 18, 1917, the President directs that for the period 
of the existing emergency there shall be raised and maintained 
by voluntary induction and draft a Students' Army Training 
Corps. Units of this corps will be authorized by the Secretary 
of War at educational institutions that meet the requirements 
laid down in special regulations." 

2. Title. — Those regulations will be known as Students' 
Army Training Corps Regulations. ( S. A. T. C. R. ) 

3. Object. — The object of establishing units of the Students' 
Army Training Corps is to utilize effectively the plant, equip- 
ment, and organization of th^ colleges for selecting and training 
officer candidates and technical experts for service in the 
existing ■emeirgency, 

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SECTION II. 

CONSTITUTION. 

Paragraph. 

Establishment of units 4 

Sections of units 5 

Requirements for the establishment of sections 6 

Students in preparatory departments 7 

Approval of units 8 

Discontinuance of units . 9 

4. EstaWishineiit of units. — The Students' Army Training 
Corps consists of units established by the President in qualified 
educational institutions which fulfill the requirements laid 
down in these regulations. 

5. Sections of units, — The members of the Students' Army 
Training Corps at an educational institution will form a single 
unit for purposes of military organization, but for purposes of 
instruction such unit may consist of one or more sections, 
according to the type of educational training given. 

6. Requirements for the estaMishment of sections. — The 
sections of a unit of the Students' Army Training Corps and 
the educational requirements for the establishment of the same 
are as follows : 

a. Collegiate section. — The establishment of a collegiate sec- 
tion (to be known as Section A) may be authorized at any civil 
educational institution which — 

(1) Requires for admission to its regular curricula gradua- 

tion from a standard, four-year, secondary school, or 
an equivalent, and 

(2) Ordinarily provides a general or professional curricu- 

lum covering at least 2 years of not less than 32 
weeks each, and 

(3) Has a student attendance sufficient to maintain a 

collegiate section of a Students' Army Training Corps 
unit with a strength of at least 100 men. 
So far as practicable an effort will be made to establish 
collegiate sections at institutions which have a smaller student 
attendance than that prescribed in the preceding paragraph. 
Applications from such institutions will be considered and 
granted so far as officers and equipment permit, and so far as 
arrangements for the establishment of joint units may be found 
practicable. 



STUDENTS' ARMY TRAINING CORPS REGULATIONS. 7 

Provided tlae conditions of this paragraph are met, educa- 
tional institutions qualified to maintain collegiate sections of 
Students' Army Training Corps units will include : 

(1) Colleges and schools of — 
(a) Arts and sciences. 
(&) Technology. 

(c) Engineering. 

(d) Mines. 

(e) Agriculture and forestry. 

(/) Business administration, industry, and commerce. 

(g) Pharmacy. 

(h) Veterinary medicine. 

(i) Education. 

(>) Law. 

(k) Medicine. 

(?) Dentistry. 

(2) Graduate schools. 

(3) Normal schools.^ 

(4) Junior colleges. 

(5) Technical institutes. 

6. Vocational section. — The establishment of a vocational 
section (to be known as Section B) may be authorized at any 
institution having an adequate shop or laboratory equipment 
and a staif of instructors capable of giving approved vocational 
training of military value. 

7. Students in preparatory departments. — Students enrolled 
in preparatory departments of higher civil educational institu- 
tions may not be counted by college authorities in reckoning the 
100 able-bodied male students required for the establishment 
of a unit containing a collegiate section only. 

8. Approval of units. — A unit will not be established unless 
the conditions laid down in paragraph 6 of these regulations 
are fulfilled and unless the institution is, in the opinion of the 
Secretary of War, capable of efficiently carrying out the work 
prescribed. 

9. Discontinuance of units. — The Secretary of War may dis- 
continue any unit should he consider that the proper stand- 
ards are not being maintained and that the unit is not ful- 
filling the objects for which the corps is established. 

1 Normal schools which give at least two years of college work, fol- 
lowing four years of high-school preparation or its equivalent, may be 
included. 



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SECTION III. 

CONDITIONS AND ROUTINE OF ADMISSION TO A STU- 
DENTS' ARMY TRAINING CORPS UNIT. 

Paragraph. 

Conditions of admission 10 

Status of members of the Students' Army Training Corps- 11 

Members of collegiate sections 12 

Active duty status 13 

Assignment of members of the Students' Army Training 

Corps 14 

Preferences of voluntarily inducted men to be considered- 15 
Students not eligible for membership in the Students' 

Army Training Corps may be given military instruction- 16 

10. Conditions of admission. — ^Eligibility to the Students' 
Army Training Corps is limited to registrants under the selec- 
tive-service regulations who are physically iBt to perform full 
or limited military duty and who have had at least grammar- 
school education or its equivalent. 

a. Collegiate sections. — A collegiate section (Section A) of a 
Students' Army Training Corps unit will include those who have 
graduated from a standard four-year secondary school or have 
equivalent educational qualifications. 

Subject to the approval of the Committee on Education and 
Special Training an institution may prescribe any reasonable 
addition to the requirement for admission set forth in sub- 
paragraph a above. The requirement of graduation from a 
standard four-year secondary school or an equivalent, as a con- 
dition for admission, will be relaxed only in cases where, in 
the judgment of the Committee on Education and Special Train- 
ing, the enforcement of this requirement would admit numbers 
insufficient to meet the needs of the service. 

&. Vocational sections. — A vocational section (Section B) of 
a Students' Army Training Corps will include those who have 
had grammar-school education or its equivalent. 

11. Status of members of the Students' Army Training 
Corps. — Upon admission to the Students' Army Training Corps 
a registrant becomes a soldier in the Army of the United States. 
As such he is subject to military law and to military discipline 
at all times. 

12. Members of colleg-iate sections. — The collegiate sec- 
tions of Students' Army Training Corps units will be recruited 



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in the first instance by the voluntary induction of registrants 
under the selective-serAdce regulations. 

13. Active-duty status.- — Members of the Students' Army 
Training Corps will be placed upon active-duty status imme- 
diately upon their induction. The Committee on Education and 
Special Training will enter into contracts with educational in- 
stitu^tions for the quartering, subsistence, and instruction of 
members of the Students' Army Training Corps units established 
at such institutions. 

14. Assignment of memljers of the Students' Army Train- 
ing Corps. — From time to time, in accordance with the needs 
of the service and the qualifications of the individual, it will 
be the policy of the Government to assign members of the 
Students' Army Training Corps to : 

a. An officers' training camp, or 

6. A noncommissioned officers' training school, or 

c. A depot brigade, or 

4. To continue in certain cases (in either a collegiate or voca- 
tional section) such technical or special training as the needs 
of the service may require. 

Assignments will ordinarily be made to officers' training 
camps or to noncommissioned officers' training schools in the 
case of men who are qualified to become officers or noncommis- 
sioned officers ; to continue at an educational institution in the 
case of qualified men who are engaged in such studies as 
medicine, engineering, chemistry, etc., or who give promise of 
qualifying for admission to officers' training camps or non- 
commissioned officers' training schools ; and to a depot brigade 
in the case of those who do not give sufficient promise of quali- 
fying for commissions after further training. 

15. Preferences of voluntarily inducted men to be con- 
sidered. — The preference of registrants who are voluntarily 
inducted into the Students' Army Training Corps as to the 
branch of the service that they ultimately enter (e. g.. Engi- 
neers, Artillery, Infantry, Chemical Warfare Service, etc.) 
will be given consideration except where military needs require 
a different course. 

16. Students not eligible for membership in the Students' 
Army Training Corps may be given military instruction.— 
Students in educational institutions at which a unit of the 
Students' Army Training Corps has been established may, if 
not eligible for membership in the corps, be given such military 
instruction as may be found practicable. 



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SECTION IV. 

ADMINISTRATION. 

Paragraph. 

Central administration IT 

Administration witliin tlie institution IS 

Relation of officers to the authorities of the institution 19 

Authority in matters of discipline 21 

Method of voluntary induction 22 

Organization of units 23 

17. Central administration. — The Students' Army Training 
Corps is administered by the War Department through the 
Committee on Education and Special Training of the Training 
and Instruction Branch, War Plans Division, General StafC, 
assisted by an advisory educational board, together with educa- 
tional directors, district educational directors and special ad- 
visers. 

18. Administration within the institution. — The War De- 
partment will provide an officer of the Army, active or retired, 
to serve as commanding officer in each institution at w^hich a 
unit of the Students' Army Training Corps is established, and, 
so far as practicable, additional officers will be provided in 
proportion to the strength of the unit. 

19. Eelation of officers to the authorities of the institu- 
tion. — The commanding officer and the other officers assigned 
to duty with units* of the Students' Army Training Corps will, 
in their relation to the institution, observe the general usages 
therein established affecting the duties and obligations of 
members of the faculty and other academic instructors. Offi- 
cers will not, without permission of the Secretary of War, 
"undertake any Instructional or administrative duties in the 
institution other than those connected with the work of the 
Students' Army Training Corps. 

20. The commanding officer at an institution will instruct 
officers and noncommissioned officers in their relation to the 
institution and its officials. 

21. Authority in matters of discipline. — It is the duty of 
the commanding officer, and of other officers assigned to duty 
with units of the Students' Army Training Corps, to enforce 
military discipline. Nothing in these regulations is intended 
to confer on the commanding officer authority over purely 
educational matters. 



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22. Method of yoluntary induction. — The method of volun- 
tary induction into tlie Students' Army Training Corps is pre- 
scribed in the Selective Service Regulations and instructions 
issuing from the office of the Provost Marshal General. 

23. Organization of units. — The Students' Army Training 
Corps is a corps of The United States Army. Members of it will 
be trained for the line and for the different staff corps. Their 
educational programs will be shaped to prepare various groups 
for particular duties in accordance with the needs of the 
service. The Students' Army Training Corps will be organized 
as Infantry under the Tables of Organization and the funda- 
mental infantry training common to all branches of the service 
will be given. 

SECTION V. 

SCOPE OF TRAINING. 

Paragraph. 

Instruction in Section A 24 

Approval of courses in allied subjects 25 

List of allied subjects . 26 

Instruction in Section B 27 

24. Instruction in Section A. — For Section A the instruction 
will be partly military and partly in allied subjects that have 
value as a means of training officers and experts to meet the 
needs of the service. 

The average number of hours to be devoted each week to 
those subjects will be as follows : 

a. Military subjects, including practical instruction (drill, 
etc.), theoretical military instruction, and physical training — 
11 hours. 

&. Allied subjects, including lectures, recitations, laboratory 
instruction and the necessary preparation therefor — 42 hours. 
(Each hour of lecture or recitation will ordinarily require two 
hours of supervised study. ) 

The hours above set forth have reference to the normal course. 
In the case of students who have pursued for at least one year 
at an approved institution such studies as form part of the 
program of preparation for the Chemical Warfare Service, the 
Medical Corps, the Engineer Corps, the Ordnance Corps, or 
other technical branches of the service, the Committee on Edu- 
cation and Special Training may authorize a reduction in the 
hours of military instruction (including practical military in- 



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struction, theoretical military instruction, and physical train- 
ing) to not less than six hours per week, provided that the 
reduction is made good by the substitution of a corresponding 
number of additional hours of instruction in approved technical 
subjects. 

Provision will be made for approving general programs, as 
well as technical and special programs, in medicine, engineering, 
chemistry, and other technical courses. 

25. Approval of courses in allied siil3jects, — The Committee 
on Education and Special Training will furnish from time to 
time suggestions regarding the treatment of allied subjects that 
are chosen as parts of the curriculum. District educational 
directors (Section A) are authorized to approve courses which 
they deem to be suitable, subject to the ratification of the edu- 
cational director (Section A). 

26. List of allied siilbjects. — The allied subjects will ordi- 
narily be selected from the following list: English, French, 
Italian, German, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, geol- 
ogy, psychology, geography, topography and map making, mete- 
orology, astronomy, hygiene, sanitation, descriptive geometry, 
mechanical and freehand drawing, surveying, economics, account- 
ing, history, international law, military law, and government. 

Permission may be granted for the recognition, as an allied 
subject, of not more than one subject outside the above list, 
provided that it occupies not more than three hours per week in 
lectures and recitations with corresponding time for study. 

In the case of technical and professional schools provision 
wall be made for approving general programs of study containing 
subjects other than those included in the above list of allied 
subjects. 

The war-issues, course. — The program of study in allied sub- 
jects must include a course on the underlying issues of the war. 
This may be planned as a special war-issues course with a 
minimum for Section A of three classroom hours per week, 
with corresponding time for study, covering three terms, or the 
requirement may be met by a course or courses in history, gov- 
ernment, economics, philosophy, or modern literature where 
those courses are so planned as, in the opinion of the educa- 
tional director (Section A), to accomplish substantially the 
same purpose. 

The district educational director (Section A) may empower 
colleges to excuse from this course : 



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a. Members of tlie Students' Army Training Corps who have 
had a similar course, even though not identical in every detail, or 

&. Members of the Students' Army Training Corps who have 
already had at least two years of work of collegiate grade in an 
approved institution and who should be required to concentrate 
the whole of their time on advanced studjies. 

While the study of any of the subjects set forth above should 
be useful as a part of the training of future officers, the con- 
tents of the course and the methods of instruction will in each 
case determine the acceptance of the subject as well as the 
amount of credit to be assigned to it as an allied military sub- 
ject. This credit may vary according to the branch of the 
service for which the student is preparing, e. g., Field Artillery, 
Medical Corps, or Engineering Corps. 

27. Instruction in Section B. — For Section B the average 
number of hours to be devoted each week to military and voca^- 
tional training will be as follows : 

a. Military subjects, including practical instruction (drill, 
etc.), and physical training — 15^ hours. 

&. Vocational subjects — 33 hours. 

0. War-issues course (see fourth subparagraph of paragraph 
26 above) — 1 hour. 

SECTION* VI. 

MILITARY INSPECTION. 

■ 28. A body of military inspectors will cover units of the 
Students' Army Training Corps and report directly to the Com- 
mittee on Education and Special Training. 

SECTION VII. 

UNIFORM AND EQUIPMENT, 

Paragraph. 

Uniform, arms, and equipment 29 

Use of Government property 30 

Issue of Government property , SX 

B,equisitions . 32 

Shipments 33 

Storage and cleaning , 34 

Loss or damage . 35 

Sale or pledge ^ — ., _ 36 

Insignia 37 



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2^. Uniform, arms, and equipment. — a. The uniform of a 
member of the Students' Army Training Corps and his allow- 
ance of clothing will be that of a private soldier and will be 
furnished complete as far as practicable. 

&. The number and kinds of arms and equipment to be issued 
will, so far as praticable, conform to those prescribed for the 
Army. 

30. Use of Oovernment property. — ^No article of Govern- 
ment uniform or equipment, issued under the provisions of the 
foregoing paragraphs, shall be used except to uniform members 
of the unit of the Students' Army Training Corps at the insti- 
tution to which said uniform and equipment were issued. 

31. Issue of Ooyernment property. — All Government prop- 
erty will be issued and invoiced to the supply officer, who will 
6e accountable to the Government for same. Requisitions and 
returns for Government property must be prepared in accord- 
ance with the regulations governing the respective supply de- 
partments concerned. 

32. Kequisitions. — Requisitions for Government property 
will be sent by the commanding officer to the Committee on 
Education and Special Training, who, after approving, will 
forward them to the proper source of supply. 

33. Shipments. — Authorized shipments of Government prop- 
erty from depots, arsenals, or armories to institutions, and 
authorized return shipments of such property from institu- 
tions to depots, arsenals, or armories will be made on regular 
form of Government bill of lading at the expense of the United 
Staies. 

34. Storage and cleaning. — ^Adequate facilities must be pro- 
vided by the institution for the proper storage, care, and safe- 
keeping of Government property issued to it. All Government 
property must be kept in serviceable condition. A proper allow- 
ance of cleaning material and spare parts will be issued so 
far as practicable by the Government for this purpose. De- 
tailed instruction as to the care, use, preservation, and accounta- 
bility of Government property are found in the Army Regula- 
tions and in other regulations or instructions issued by the 
War Department, and strict adherence to same is enjoined upon 
all concerned. 

35. Loss or damage. — Action concerning the loss, damage, or 
unserviceability of Government property will be in accordance 
with Army Regulations. 



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§C Sale or pledge. — The sale or pledge of any article of 
unif 01x11, arms, or equipment by an enlisted man is an offense 
punishable by court-martial. 

37. Insignia. — Members of the Students' Army Training 
Corps will wear, with the service hat, an olive-drab cord. 
They will wear as collar insignia a bronze disk bearing the 
letters " U. S." 

Acting noncommissioned officers of the Students' Army Train- 
ing Corps will wear the chevrons prescribed for noncommis- 
sioned officers of the Army. 

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